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Linux Printing of UTF8

  • 23-02-2010 3:57pm
    #1
    trellheim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,036 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone help ?

    I have a Redhat box, RH4AS. LANG=en_IE.UTF-8

    I have a Jetdirect Laserjet4 connected via vanilla cups Jetdirect.

    I have plaintext documents with Irish names and addresses - e.g. fadas and the like, you know what I mean. The fadas appear using vi in putty no problem with Putty translation set to UTF8

    Printing such documents using GEDIT from KDE works fine, the fadas appear.

    Printing using lpr doesn't work properly(i.e. the fada'd' characters come out as doublebyte crud ) . No special config was done on the printer.

    What am I doing wrong ?

    I am presuming gedit works ok because it rolls them through some sort of postscript preprocessor. What can I do ? I need to be able to do proper printing.

    TIA

    T


Comments

  • #2
    lynchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,013 ✭✭✭lynchie


    AFAIK, lpr just sends the file directly to the printer. As the printer probably doesnt support utf8 encoding out of the box it wont print it. You have to run it through a preprocessor first like postscript before u can print using lpr.

    Install the paps RPM then print using paps mytextfile.txt | lpr


  • #3
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Moved from programming development (even).


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